How to Use tokamak in a Sentence

tokamak

noun

• One of these two needs to be big for the tokamak to work.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
• And the scale of the impact depends on the size of the tokamak, for example.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 26 Oct. 2020
• But heat must be able to vent out of the tokamak, and that’s where destruction starts.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2021
• In every tokamak, there is a null point in the magnetic field.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2020
• Assembly is set to begin next year in a giant hall erected next to the tokamak site.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• So what goes wrong with magnets in a typical tokamak run?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• Spherical tokamaks do this by seeking to hold the plasma in the center of the device, close to the central column.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
• Assembly [of the tokamak] will be quite challenging and hard to stay on schedule.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
• Most of the energy will be carried away by neutrons, which will escape the plasma and strike the walls of the tokamak, producing heat.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• The tokamak chamber, seen from the top (top) and middle (bottom), is a cylinder that will hold the ITER experiment.
  — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
• So in a tokamak reactor, plasma is heated more and more until its charged ions start to merge.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 18 Feb. 2022
• In a tokamak, without such a strong gravitational pull, the atoms need to be about 10 times hotter.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• In a tokamak, microwaves and particle beams heat the fuel and magnetic fields trap it.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 13 Dec. 2022
• The inner vessel wall of the tokamak was upgraded from graphite to beryllium.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• And the best results were 3.5 times better than for an equivalent tokamak device.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
• For a tokamak, that is fine because the field has to terminate somewhere, and the device operates in pulses.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 23 May 2018
• The stellarator, however, traps the plasma in a twisting and spiraling shape, rather than the torus (doughnut shape) of a tokamak.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2018
• Where did the compact advanced tokamak design concept come from?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Apr. 2021
• This pumps out the diverted particles and removes any excess heat to protect the tokamak.
  — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• Like many of the world’s tokamak experiments, EAST has reached fusion before.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2020
• This is the situation in a tokamak when chirping occurs.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2020
• But even this kind of fusion divides into a further two camps: tokamaks and stellarators.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Apr. 2023
• The tokamak is on track to switch on in 2025, and then the reactor will begin to heat up to temperatures hot enough to induce nuclear fusion.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 June 2020
• But no tokamak has generated more energy from fusion than is used to heat up the plasma.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 2 Dec. 2020
• In Williams’ engine prototype, this tokamak would be nearly spherical—more like a donut hole.
  — Meghan Herbst, Wired, 17 June 2021
• One approach is to confine it with magnetic fields into a doughnut shape inside a chamber called a tokamak.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 2 Feb. 2022
• Small spherical tokamaks are one of the technologies that have brought fusion within the reach of private companies.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• There are currently two types of magnetic confinement devices in use: the tokamak and the stellarator.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Mar. 2016
• In a tokamak or a stellarator, the hot plasma is limited to a density of 10 14 deuterons per cubic centimeter.
  — Bayarbadrakh Baramsai, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Feb. 2022
• For more than 70 years, fusion research has largely focused on mimicking the inside of the sun in reactors known as tokamaks, which trap superhot hydrogen gas within strong magnetic fields so that atoms will collide and fuse.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024